Some colours reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

The rich man who gives steals twice over. First, he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Death is pitch-dark, but colours are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Without anxiety and illness, I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

Colours live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?

My will exceeds my talents.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.